From: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:37:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3esrvk8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
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From: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:27:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.
* doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Add a dot at the end of a sentence.
(The Store Monad): Add "are" to make a complete sentence.
(G-Expressions): Fix typo.
---
doc/guix.texi | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 1a7f188..2407a41 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -3245,7 +3291,7 @@ provides a framework for working with @dfn{monads}, and a particularly
useful monad for our uses, the @dfn{store monad}. Monads are a
construct that allows two things: associating ``context'' with values
(in our case, the context is the store), and building sequences of
-computations (here computations include accesses to the store.) Values
+computations (here computations include accesses to the store.). Values
in a monad---values that carry this additional context---are called
@dfn{monadic values}; procedures that return such values are called
@dfn{monadic procedures}.
@@ -3274,7 +3320,7 @@ as a monadic function:
#$output))))
@end example
-There several things to note in the second version: the @code{store}
+There are several things to note in the second version: the @code{store}
parameter is now implicit and is ``threaded'' in the calls to the
@code{package->derivation} and @code{gexp->derivation} monadic
procedures, and the monadic value returned by @code{package->derivation}
@@ -3541,7 +3587,7 @@ S-expressions adapted to build expressions. G-expressions, or
@code{ungexp}, and @code{ungexp-splicing} (or simply: @code{#~},
@code{#$}, and @code{#$@@}), which are comparable to
@code{quasiquote}, @code{unquote}, and @code{unquote-splicing},
-respectivel (@pxref{Expression Syntax, @code{quasiquote},, guile,
+respectively (@pxref{Expression Syntax, @code{quasiquote},, guile,
GNU Guile Reference Manual}). However, there are major differences:
@itemize
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Dear Guix,
I noticed some typos and/or missing words when reading parts of the
manual. Instead of leaving it be, I attached a patch to fix them.
I don't know how my commit message should look like in this case, so
please let me know when it is wrong.
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen
next reply other threads:[~2016-03-30 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 12:37 Roel Janssen [this message]
2016-03-30 12:54 ` [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-30 13:10 ` Roel Janssen
2016-03-30 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-30 22:10 ` Alex Kost
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